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Dream Net Sound Shaping
To bend twigs, to compose. The Music of Warren Benson CRI SD433 [1981]. The Dream Net [18′ 10″] [Recorded at Eastman School of Music, 1978]. Frederick Hemke, saxophonist. Kronons Quartet, strings. Notes from the album sleeve The title, The Dream … Continue reading
Word Book World Back
It was originally published under the title Triton. Wesleyan University Press reissued it under the title Trouble on Triton with a forward by Kathy Acker who introduces the reader to the intricacies of Samuel Delany’s prose by way of an … Continue reading
Colophon Quibbles
This reads as a parody by its excess and by the fact that it’s the colophon to a work of poems infused with the jargon of the oil patch. Someone at the Coach House Press was having fun with Mathew … Continue reading
Dedication Deciphering
Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season. The Massey Lectures. For Gudrun Bjerring Parker Filmmaker, feminist, lover of the world, woman of the north, who raised and loved and nurtured and then let go of my own true love, … Continue reading
English Vistas
From a piece of ephemera. The flyer announcing Stonyground Press publication in 1987 of Groves by Thomas Traherne (1637-1674). Edited by D.D.C. Chambers. The Civil War in the middle of the 17th century destroyed many of the forests of England, … Continue reading
Blinkers
The epigraph to Rabih Alameddine Koolaids: The Art of War I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos of life pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. Of course compulsively obsessing about a segment is a form … Continue reading
Florilegium
Some of the epigraphs to various sections from H.L. Hix Chromatic Spinoza (Ethics) Desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual. Wittgenstein (Remarks on Colour) How must we look at this problem in order for it to … Continue reading
Winnowing
Found inscribed in the flyleaf of a copy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We translated by Mirra Ginsburg No wonder the Russians can’t grow wheat — they’re too busy writing. The sentence concludes a longish encomium. I like its wryness. And so … Continue reading
Dissipation Anticipation
It is fun to find traces of the French text (spelling Zhabotinski with a terminal ‘i’ in the caption to Figure 16 p. 168 and ‘échelle’ in the legend to Figure F p. 185). Fun because they illustrate marvellously bedevilling … Continue reading
Sub-mundane
There is on the spine of Brick (Winter 2005) a quotation from Jim Harrison’s “Food, Fitness, and Death” in the same issue of Brick. This is the quotation: How feebly the arts compete with the idea of what we are … Continue reading